ENIGMA Development Environment

If I recall correctly from the wiki, the ENIGMA license does permit using it to develop commercial software. Even so, am I incorrect in my remembering this and are there any gotchas I should watch out for that may invalidate that permission?

We're specifically looking to exclude this usecase from our GPL exemption—IDEs using ENIGMA logic would have to share its license (or default to pure GPL). Only games created by the end user will be exempt from GPL (and allowed to remain closed-source).

Should it be possible to run Ubuntu on VMWare Player 3.0?

I assume so, but I am unfamiliar with that particular VM.

Would it be enough to do a PolyOne build, make sure it all seems to be working, then make that a release candidate, or is there some reason that I would have to create individual builds for different Linux distros? My guess is the answer is no, as most Linux and Windows-compatible software I have seen does not have different versions for different Linux distros.

Generally, it's an issue of convenience. Most software teams only support Ubuntu, and other distributions pick up the slack from there.

Should I expect a poor reception as a result of not sharing the source code of PolyOne?

Not necessarily. Different people care differently about their software's license, so long as it meets their usecase.

I don't have plans to include any kind of copy protection in the paid version. Is it something I should be worried about?

Probably not. People will pay for your software if they feel like it. Any protection would serve as a barrier to new users and would be circumvented quickly by pirates if your software was worth it.

There are a few similarities that my software has, at least visually, to many other pieces of software. I don't consider it possible to avoid every piece of software which has ever been created, and PolyOne isn't the only case of this situation. Should I be worried about patent trolls trying to sue me for obscene amounts of money?

There is a lot of prior art in the game development space which tends to render that impossible. ENIGMA's viral licensing is part of its survival tactics, there, however.

Does the Patreon only fund RadialGM, or does it also include ENIGMA?

The Patreon supports both projects (the developer base is the same).

The pull request will be more up-to-date than the information and download available in this thread.

To get the latest scoop on what progress has been made, please check out the actual pull request:
https://github.com/enigma-dev/enigma-dev/pull/2107





Finally, official video playback functionality is being added to ENIGMA.

  -  Win32 games need MSYS2 installed along with the mpv/libmpv package to get all the deps.
  -  Mac users need to install mpv/libmpv via homebrew or similar package managers available.
  -  Linux and FreeBSD users may simply use their package manager as usual to install libmpv.
  -  Android support is also possible due libmpv has an Android build - so we have all platforms.

For early access to this extension, use the installer scripts provided at this repository:
https://github.com/time-killer-games/enigma-dev

Regards,
Samuel

No real opinion. UI toolkits are a dime a dozen. Qt wasn't my first pick, but it's doing well, and I expect it to succeed.

Yup, my language is called FWD, pronounced as Forward. And that's NOT an abbreviation for forwarded message! It stands for Functional language for WebDocs! (Well actually I just changed the order slightly, it was Functional WebDoc language, but that word order is maybe a bit confusing.)

Okay, now this is how the code looks, and the corresponding site!




Links to the website:
imanuelhab.mooo.com
imanuel.neocities.org (mirrored version)

I recently made a fix related to this feature for Java 9 and newer JVMs. The method used to load the custom look and feels onto the class path was busted by newer modularity. It's not a big issue because we were in fact relying on undocumented internal features, something that's always a bad idea. Regardless, you can simply update LGM through the usual means (install.sh, install.py, or download the Jar from the Extra Packages page on the Wiki) to get the fixes and use custom look and feels again. And don't worry if you don't have a newer JVM yet either, the fix is backwards compatible and also no longer requires a restart to find look and feel jars.

Patch: https://github.com/IsmAvatar/LateralGM/commit/708cb2b193af0ad5dbe229a6a3f735b1a90c22f8
New Jar: https://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Install:Extra_Packages#LateralGM